The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-07-25

mayor ano Also TO request him to o. procla.
nation requesting all citizsns to observe
July 80 as a local holiday. .
Messrs. John Corcoran, @. Waseman
and VIM. Stoetzsr wcre appointed spe.
cisl committee to secure q platoon OF 20.
lice for the parade, and also several to
preserve order on the grounds. z.
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THROUGH TIE STATE.
Accidents and Incidents In West Virginia
and Vicinity.
The Parkersburg Electric Light Compa-
ny, recently established, has secured q
contract to light the Custom House there
throughout.
The annual meeting Of the State Bar
Association ie to be held at Berkeley
Springs, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri.
day Of this week. No. sEl Ts"
]. Henry CLARK, OF Monroe county, had
been out bathing and wss returning home
when he stumbled in jumpinga ditch and
broke his leg in two places.
During aevere thunder otorm at Hunt
lngton last week, one OF the dynsmoa OF
the electric light plant was so badly in
lured by a bolt Of lightning that the city
IVES without the light for several nights.
Hon. Dewitt @. Coleman, OF Rayenns,
! the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, ia well.known' to the
people along tho line Of the Ohio River
road. He was one OF the contractors that
built that line. ,slg
An 1fiahmsn named Patrick Finnerty,
While laborinR under it OF insanity.
committed suicide at Huntington by
drowning himself. He was among those
Frustrated by the extreme heat. Of last
week, aud his mind became unbalanced
in consequence. II!
John Steele, miner living three miles
from Westernport, Nd, was badly hurt
Saturday morning by stepping from
train as 1t was crossing the viaduct in
| Cumberland. He iell TO the ground, a
distance OF about thirty.fye feet. He was
intoxicated at the time.
The barn Of Warwick NJ. McCiung, OF
Greenbrier county, together with it's con-
tents, including 200 dozen OF good wheat,
quantity of hay, two good wagons,
some harness and valuable colt, were
all destroyed by FIRE. The loas ia eEtirna.
ted at 81 600. The cause Of the fire is not
known.
Mayor and ex-Postmaster Samuel
Tschsppat, OF Clsrington, Ohio, who is
wanted at tina. place to anawer a chsfge
of perjury while acting az q witness in
certain ealoon prosecutions that took
place there recently, WAS arrested ut Mil.
waukee Saturday at the request Of Ohio
authorities.
The question OF establishing proper
System Of sewerage ia being strongly agita-
ted in Parkereburg, the second city Of the
State. a good system OF water works was
recently started and is in successful opera.
ton, but the drainage is still all surface
and in consequence bad etate OF affairs
exists in many low psrts.
Governor E. Willis Wilson and family
are at the Salt Sulphur Springs, in Mon.
roe county. There are over one hundred
and fifty, guests at this resort, At the
"Old Sweet" there are about three hum
bred and fifty quests, and at the Sweet
Chalybeate Springs there arc about one
hundred guests. This season. thus far,
promises to be very; prosperous one for
the summer regorte in this State. Z lt
VIII billiard, a young man about IS
years old who hsd been employed for
some time past on the stock farm OF P. A.
Boyd, situated about four miles from
Union. Monroe county, was almost in
etantly killed by a kick aimed by stsl.
lion he was handling, at:another hofee.
The blow struck the young man on the
left breast just over the heart. He spoke
bus once afterwards, and in less than Il
minute he was dead. a :,
The residence Of G. W. Hill, Of Mon
roe county, accidentally caught fire and
Was totally destroyed. The fire broke ont
in tho second story, and il supposed to
have been caused by the ignition of
matches from the gnawing OF rats, ss there
was no fire il the house at the time. and
no Visible cause for the contlagrstion, Mr..
Hill loHt the greater portion OF his house.
hold goods, q small quantity being saved
IN . damaged condition. His loss Is euti-
mated at from $1,000 $500, upon yhich
there ia no insurance. sl.25 -; ~. ti"-
Hon. VIM. NJ. Clomsnta has presented
to the Clementg Guards, OF Manninotor
g magnificent stand Of coiors, consistinv n
a large silk flag 5x7 feet, with heavy Fold
cords and gold fringe. The banner Is ~
heavy blue silk, A by feet, with pold
fringe and heavy cords and tassels. On
one side Is the coat OF arms Of the State
and on the other is the name Of tho com.
pany, etc. There ere also two Bmall han
ners, for markers, The flag and banner
atatf each have a handsome silver platn.
with suitable inscriptions. -
"A very bold attempt was made 10 ,oh
the bank at Anderson, on the @. & o, road.
one night last week. It Was about II
o'cloek and the west-bound passenger train
was nearing the station, whcu'a man
standing at the coal.house door in rear al
the valley bank, fired three pistol Bhota
o. Isaac l. Mann, the teller, who had
eetepped out Of the door on q ANAL MAI.
form. The balls missed hitu and strnck
the door, one going through Il. Altar
Nf!nE tho would-be robber and assass;n
rushed at Mr.. Mann and aimed a blow -
him with this pistol or a kniie, Init M
mann warded of tho blow with his lei
tasr!n aaq 1ffpek the man in the lace with
nus right fist, knocking him over, when he
aprang back into the bank for bis own
piatol' The man vas gone VIXEN be came
OUT armed, and could not be found. ms
man must have struck at Mr, NJ, with a
pig knite, for bis coat Ia eeersucker) haa in
It large, well.dedned cut. The man mood
sell'cocking revolver, and pnt j IN h;s
work rapidly while the moving train was zoe
making a racket. reraons who heard tha
saootiny thought 1t was tornadoea Wv
ploded on the track by the earn. -
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